Parks Endowment Fund
Endowment: money or property given for the permanent use of an institution.
Parks are for the present and the future.
They are designed to help create a healthy environment for persons of all ages and abilities. We conserve land to improve the quality of our lives, and to save the best of our natural and historic resources for future generations. Parks, through their natural environment, keep us alive. Their beauty inspires and renews us. Preserving and protecting our parks helps build and sustain a healthy, vibrant, growing community. By contributing to an endowment fund, you are leaving a lasting legacy that will benefit the lives of others for generations.
The Indianapolis Parks Foundation has established a Parks Endowment Fund.
The Parks Endowment Fund will assure that our parks will have the necessary funds to meet maintenance needs today and in the future. This fund will provide a permanent source of money that will be used to address ongoing maintenance needs for our parks system.
Maintenance issues are a constant need
As long as there are parks in Indianapolis, there will be maintenance issues, including repairing playgrounds, pools, picnic shelters, picnic tables, trails, and on and on.
In Marion County, Indy Parks and Recreation currently operates:
- 207 park properties
- 21 aquatic facilities
- 58 miles of greenway
- 23 family centers
- 4 nature centers
- 13 golf courses
- 4 disc golf courses
- 1 ice rinks
- 3 dog parks
- mountain bike trail
- conservatory
- arts center
- velodrome
- skate park
- BMX complex
To learn more, please email Tanya Husain or call (317) 860-3251